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British Spies Back Schism in Orthodox Church – Russian Foreign Intel

British intelligence services are supporting the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in weaken the presence of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) says.
Sputnik
Key points:
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople seeks to replace Moscow-linked churches in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with those loyal to his sect, working with the Baltic governments
The plan involves drawing clergy and congregations away from the Moscow Patriarchate into newly created Constantinople-backed bodies
British intelligence services are encouraging and aiding the plan while fueling anti-Russian sentiment across Europe
Constantinople plans to grant autocephaly to the unrecognized Montenegrin Orthodox Church in a direct challenge to the Serbian Orthodox Church
Church insiders told the SVR the scheme could destroy the unity of global Orthodoxy.
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